Mike Tindall avoids ruck with Zara Phillips

Zara Phillips, the daughter of the Princess Royal, will remain calm over the
CCTV footage of husband Mike Tindall and a former girlfriend thanks to her "super
chilled" attitude, says engagement ring designer.

Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall married in Edinburgh in July. Photo: GETTY

Tim Walker. Edited by Sally Newall

7:28AM BST 10 Oct 2011

Zara Phillips did well to maintain a stiff upper lip when her husband, Mike Tindall, the England rugby player, was caught on camera in New Zealand with an old flame.

As he returns home after defeat in the quarter finals against France, friends say that the Princess Royal’s daughter will not have changed her tune. “Something like this really isn’t going to faze them,” says Charles Goode, the 27-year-old jeweller who designed Zara’s engagement ring. He adds: “Zara is super-chilled. She will know exactly how to handle this.”

Philip Mould's world wide woe

Philip Mould, the Antiques Roadshow specialist, who had his entry on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, sabotaged by a rival, has suffered again on the internet. “It’s horrifying when you’re watching yourself on television and you’re getting comments every 15 seconds on Twitter,” the presenter of the BBC’s Fake or Fortune, tells me. “One guy had a go at my haircut, which I felt very sensitive about.”

He adds: “In Australia, they were far crueller; they see me as a walking English historical portrait.”

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